What Do We Know About Globalization?: Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3669-3

Hardcover

384 pages

September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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A lively and accessible argument about the impact and consequences of globalization from a leading figure in economics - Dehesa is Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Group of Thirty
Tackles the two fundamental arguments often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality and increases poverty
Demonstrates the ways in which wealthy nations and developing countries alike have failed to implement changes that would result in a reversal of these social ills
Dispels the notion of the so-called 'victim of globalization', demonstrating how, despite popular belief, acceleration of globalization actually stands to reduce the levels of poverty and inequality worldwide
Asks whether increased technological, economic, and cultural change can save us from international income inequality, and by extension, further violence, terrorism and war